Published by the UST Publishing House, the two-volume “A History of the University of Santo Tomas: Four
Centuries of Higher Education in the Philippines (1611-2011)” by the
highly respected Spanish Dominican historian Fr. Fidel Villarroel, OP promise to become the most comprehensive and most definitive yet of UST, Asia’s oldest university.
Because of their scope and exhaustiveness, the history books are also a veritable history of education in the Philippines.
In the book, Father Villarroel, who systematized the UST Archives and is mentor to several historians and researchers, corrects a number of “faulty” items of history.
